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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04

some more to eat. We get awful grub,
and we never get cakes enough for
breakfast. She only bakes one at a
time and fellow has to wait terrible
long time between his cakes, ali but one
fellow who cuts wood for her when she
asks him aid he, never has to wait for
she keeps him,a going in cakes all the
time. We call him .the pet" but he
don't mind it so long as he gets all the
cakes he wants to. Dinner is just the
same, only a good deal worse,
and is always the same thing
except on Sundays. when we have
pie instead of pudding for desert.
The buildings we have every day are
made of bread and other things, and are
economical to the boarding house be-
cause no one eats 1t, and one pudding
will therefore last a long time. | know
this for fact, for one day we all put a
lot of salt in it, and every day we would
just taste it and 1t was always the same
old pudding, saltier sthan mackerel.
Supper is what is left over from dinner,
and it amt much. Ii it was not for the
tobOggan slides and skating Kinks and
parties and the girls i guess we would
all starve. If she sees this and knows
it is about her we wont get no more pie
on Sunday and maybe no more ginger
snaps for breakfast too. Yours truly,
Rich Valley. Mimi. Aug. 80. ID. o.
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boarders. Nobody is compelled to live
with disagreeable landlady or at her
house if he can afford to pay for better. If
he can't afford to pay for better he has
ho:right to grumble at the house or land
lady. If he can afford to pay for better
and has either good sense or good breed
ing, he will quietly go to better place,
pay for it and enjoy 1t. GOSH.
p. ST. haven't made any attempt to
be witty In this epistle or to .sring in" a
lot of chestnuts. suppose could say
lot of disagreeable things and work in
few stale jokes, but, as am not paid
anything for my advice in this case. I
don't feel called ON to do anything more
than state the facts and my views touch
ing thdm. This letter may be a little
long,ajut if you make an equal division
ofSpade between ''for" land ''fOrninst'
the ssboardin' house keeper" you will
pnbably have ample space for this.
YAurs, etc. 'iGosH."
lSt. Paul, Aug. 80.
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coal hustler, water carrier, window
washer, scrubber, Waterman, room clerk
and cashier; and he fills them all, in
Guiding the lamp, with credit, though
he isn't allowed to credit anybody who
wants room, especially couples who
come up about II or IL 80, looking
''kind er shy" and registering as John
Smith and wife, Minneapolis. These
are made to pay for room and breakfast
in advance, whether they get breakfast
or not they never kick. So much for
our dandy clerk. Now for our dining
room. We have here a congregation of
femininity presiding over our deStinieS
whose combined attractions are equiya-
lent to ''beauty show" They whisk
about in short skirts and short aprons,
and carry impossible orders in their
brains and upon their trays,
and never make mistake, eX-
cept in the majority of instances
when it is too late to correct, as the next
fellow Is clamOring for attention. 1t is
amusing to see some of the new board
ers, who are accustomed to the male
''hash singers; how they hesitate,
blush and grow confused when one of
these lovely creatures ruShes up to his
side presenting her little bill" that he
may take what he likes. Our cook
is one of the biggest" institu-
tions in our house, and if she
doesn't battle, she at least changes
her outer habiliamentS and puts
musk or some. other powerful disinfect-
ant upon her immense frame, for she
presents by no means an unpleasant APP
pearance, nor do the odors of the
kitchen cling round her still as she
passes through the Office seeking the
street for an evenings earring"
But mustn't tire you any further
with the peculiarities of the personnel
of our foundry" nor anything else in
connection with it, at least for this
time. but if you offer any further OPP
portunities may tell you something of
the boarderS. "CALIFORNIA."
St Paul Aur 0y
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
AMT SAYING A WORD.
He Has a Handicapped Table
and That is All He Wants.

To the Editor of the Globe.
In your Sunday issue of the 21St inst.
appears numerous articles by several
smart alexis airing their boarding house
Experiences. Now without any dispoS-
tition to champion boarding houses,
would say that from the admissions of
your correspondents, they receive better
fare than they are entitled to, and more
than equivalent to the price paid. Evil
identity the writers are of that class
that are looking for cheap fare
and have found it in the style of houses
of which they seem to be the represen-
tativeS, and are doubtless in their proper
elements and would hardly appreciate
any place that would not admit of their
depoSiting themselves, boots and dirt
upon clean counterpart, and their
cigar Stumps, ashes and filth upon the
carpets instead of the slop jar and cuspa-
.dore. What manner of persons are
they who expect frst-class hotel
accommodations for the paltry sum
"a per week. The facts are that the
average boarding house is fully on par
with the average boarder. Now, if your
boarding house critic will write up the
average bOarder as we'll they may do
Justice to all. The writer's boarding
fOuse experience is quite the reverse
OF the foregoing, having been a boarder
for five months in one house. can say
without the least exaggeration that my
lines have fallen in very pleasant places.
The ladies and gentlemen, guests at
this house, are such in all that the word
implies, and seem to appreciate we'll
ordered. well-furnished, clean boarding
fhouse. This is twenty-five room house,
furnished throughout with marble
topped furniture, upholstered chairs,
Brussels carpets, etc. The tables are
served with the varieties of the mar
'kets, early fruits and vegetables at
whatever cost. The writer has been
thus favored. A luxuriant room and
good board, but not at the insignificant
figure. $3.50, which seems to have been
the charm of attraction which has cap
tured your boarding house correspond
entS. OBSERVER.
st. Paul, Aug. 81.
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WAITING.

Once in the twighlight Of an autumn day,
| stood upon a beaten path that led
The shepherd lads to where their charges
fed,
In pastures high above the upland way;
Solemn. and lone and still the mountain Law;
Aud, like dome above temple spread.
The blue sky stretched its beauty overhead,
win not one floating cloud to preach decay
light
Slow waning-the wide solitude was fraught
With mystic impulse from the silence
caught
Half intonations heralding the night
That to my heart, awebound, Conveyed
OF calm expectancy and questionless sns
pense. Chambers journal.
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HIS LANDLADY SINGS.
And When She Does Her Board
= ers Wear Tired Look.

= ers Wear Tired Look.
To the Editor of the Globe
i am stopping at flair" boarding
house; i. e., the landlady is ''fair'' as
regards her complexion, but she is not
at all ''fair" in regard to her charges for
her beastly ''fare." l pay IS per week
for bed and board. liked the grub"
the grub she set out, well enough until L
learned one day how and where she pro-
cured it. You see, we usually have
coffee, dry toast and meat stew for
breakfast; meat stew, dry toast and
coffee for dinner; and dry toast, meat
stew and coffee for supper. l learned
from fellow boarder who was unable
to pay his board bill, and attempted to
''wOrk" part of it out, that she was in
shop every morning to ask the butcher
to ''pleaSe give Mrs. Q. what old bones
and meat you have under the counter;
she wants it for her henSE' / also
learned from the aforesaid delinquent
that the ''meat stew" the boarderS were
so fond CD of three times day was
made out of the old scraps given by the
butcher, and which by all manner of
justice and right belonged to her
hens. The ''clay to art'' was
also purlOined in the same manner from
Tic OdkcI Slop, ullucI lille Sdillc eACuSc,
viz: ''She wants it for her hens! -
How she got the apology for coffee is a
mystery to US all. My landlady is from
the bOgs of Ireland. As neighbors we
are blessed % by having boarding
house presided over by a German wOm-
an, and another commanded by sable
daughter Of Africa. What jabbering
the three hash foundry generals do have
once in while lover the garden wall"
Over the entrance of our land lady's
house is huge motto ''God bless our
home" The landlady's voice is any
thing but melodious. She only at
tempts to ''sing" one song and only two
lines of that thank heaven).
''As listen to the nightingale sing, tra-la,
As listen to the nightengale sing"
But to hear her rasping voice from
early dawn till late at night is simply
awful. must ''giye the devil his due''
and acknowledge that l omitted "pota-
toes'' from the bill of fare. We gem
orally have the above-named fruit for
dessert at Sunday dinner. Yours in
despair, BANNEY Mccoy.
ST PauI Anp OF
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1T BREEDS DYSPEPSIA,
That is What Mephistopheles Says
of clearinghouse Hash.

To the Editor of the Globe.
A melancholy experience of some
seven years as victim of boarding
houses enables me to appreciate your
published communications upon the
subject In SUNDAYS GLOBE This
gen Grafton was not so Savagely Satirical
as might have been looked for by any
one kno wing whereof they affirmed"
Boarding house hash breedeth dyspep-
STA; dyspepsia engendereth sarcasm and
an evil temper; an evil temper de-
under the protection of nom de plume.
Hence [ looked for page or more of
eruptionS of anonymous spleen directed
against our landladieS. On the contrary,
no single one of all the emaciated and
bilious persons who have revealed
the story of their expressions seems
to have "Set down aught in ma
lice," while many have striven
to extenuate. This unexpected
moderation and forbearance dissuades
me from half-fOrmed purpose to ex-
pose with pen dipped in gall some of
the horrible treatment to which my di-
gestive apparatus has been these seven
years subjected, and prompts
tribute to a certain establishment
under the shadow of the capital dome,
on Tenth street, where board and rooms
are to be had for consideration. We
are numerous brood who find shelter
and SuStenance there, and are blest
with not one iandIady, but
two. While they have their.
little faults item, stubborn belief
that the boarders' lamps need .refilling
not oftener than quarterly, a faliacy
which the parable of the foolish virgins
clearly demonstrates, yet affirm with
great confidence that they are on the
whole the most excellent, amiable and
accomplished landladies in st. Paul.
No, sir; Mr.. Editor, I am not paid
to say so. Without feeling called upon
to assert that the steak is never tough.
the butter powerful, the salt-celiars
empty, the coffee debilitated. nor the
iced tea seasoned with deceased flies, /
simply maintain that, week in and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
A PRINTERS HOME.
A Landlady Who Looks on Well
Dressed Men With Suspicion.

To the Editor of the Globe.
Your correspondents of last Sunday
devoted all their wit and sarcasm to the
table and ignored the landlady-the
most Interesting piece of furniture
about a boarding house, at least, ours is.
Be it known that our family is composed
almost entirely of travelling printers.
In fact. the house is diStinctively known
as printers boarding house, and the
landlady has reputation that stretches
from Chicago to the Pacific slope. She
is an Irish lady of uncertain age, but
very certain temper. Whenever a
weary pilgrim registers his name
on her kitchen door she
promptly tells him she expects
he will ''beat" her. and she is seldom
disappointed. She will not admit a
well-dressed man, as she considers such
either rogues OF book peddlers. When
a printer applies for board he is put
through regular catechiSm, something
like the following:
''Hev yeZ emmy money? No, av coorSe
not. Hev yez changed yer Shurrat this
month? Doubtful. What station house
did yez Shape in last, and did yez get
anything on yez?'
Without waiting for answers she says:
"Well, yeZ may come in, and if yez are
hungry, there's some cold mate in the
cupboard" And he is tkereupon a
boarder in good standing.
One day at dinner new arrival was
telling about carrying the banner two
weeks in Minneapolis.
And didn't yeZ get anything for it?''
f1nteriected our landlady.
| why, no, of course not" replied the
knight of the stick and rule.
Then ply in the divil didn't yez drop
pit the first week?" innocently queried
the landlady.
At another dinner a boarder, consid-
Ierably in arrears, called for second
Epiece of pie. PAY yer board, We spal-
jpeen, if you want more pieI' indig-
lNantly exclaimed the landlady.
Recently she bought an illustrated
Bible on the installment plan, and has
found much delight in gazing upon the
pictures. The other night after long
contemplation of Mary Magdalen and
her story she gravely remarked that
she thought Mag Daily was the best
woman in the Bible" But nothwith.
standing these little defects she is fine
old Irish lady and the boys all think a
great deal of her and her excellent
cooking. RAMBLER.
l St. Paul, Aug. 27.
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THE LANDLADY A JEWEL.
A Man Who Has No Fault to Find
With His Boarding House.

With His Boarding House.
To the Editor Of the Globe.
l am happy to say that have one of
the very best boarding houses that NOR
tai man ever had. 1t is on West Tenth
street and the landlady is a perfect
jewel" l have boarded there ever
since have been in st. Paul, and the
probabilities are that / shall remain
there for some time to come. Ever
since / can remember we have had
Clipped toast and coffee for breakfast,
varied occasionally by the addition of
eggs or stewed tomatoes. For dinner
we have tenderloin or veal steak, game
in season, and always either
pudding and pie or fruit
also vegetables of various kinds. For
supper we usually have boiled Or
roast meats, and some kind of jelly or
sauce. The bedrooms are kept con-
stantly supplied with clean linen and
towels; the pitchers are always full of
water. If it happens, as it often does,
that l am not obliged to arise in the
morningin time for the regular o'clock
breakfast, am always sure of having
the meal kept warm and palatable for
me when do come down. We have no
vocal or instrumental music in the
house, but amuse ourselves principally
by reading and talking. Being a printer,
it often happens that l am unable
to meet my board bill promptly.
but to my ''gem" of a landiady. it makes
no difference, and if l waited for her to
ask me for pay, the probabilities are
that l never would have to ''ante." All
the guests are supplied with latch keys,
so we can come and go as we please.
Usually when any of us are delayed
down town and do not get ''home" till
late at night, we find a nice pitcher of
lemonade with some fruit and cake on
the dining room table for us. have
boarded at many different places and
know whereof l speak when say that
ours is as good as they make 'em: Sym
pathizing with my less fortunate fellow
creatures, am very truly yours,
TYPOGRAPHICAL TOURIST.
st. Paul, Aug. 20.
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Conjuring i'm the Family.

Philadelphia Call.
Tommy Bagley-There was a wizard
at the show, NAV, and he did the won
derfullest trick you ever saw. He took
a silver dollar, moved it around a little
while and turned it into rose.''
Bagley.-That'S nothing, Tommy beats
all the wizards in existence. He can
make $50 disappear in single night so
completely that it is never heard of
again."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
HE Is AN UMPIRE.
He Tries to Find Out Who Is Boss
Of the House, Man or Wife.

To the Editor of the Globe.
For experience of hash-foundry in
mates answer as follows: So here goes,
with very uncomfortable seat on the
wood box, as umpire between man and
wife to see who is boss. First one is
under the stove; then the other. The
umpire loses his hat in the melee and re-
fuses to take part on either side, and gets
curses from both right and left. The
umpire goes out for a drink; time, II
minutes, returns and finds the hostile
parties hugging and kissing like new
lovers. All hands retire for breakfast
next morning as per bill of fare, moth
ing for dinner, warmed up; cold for sup
per. This bill of fare repeated week in
and out. Boarders growing beautifully
less and will be still lesser. Yours in
haste, A FLAT.
st. Paul, Aug. 81.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
A DISINFECTED COOK.
Pretty Mattresses in Short Dresses
Who Garry Long Memories With

IneIn.
To the Editor of the Globe.
1 was delighted to see so many re-
Sp0nd to your call for comment upon the
habitation of the sojourner, or our
boarding houses, in last weeks issue.
One reference to the "cross between a
hotel and boarding house." made me
think of our place, and will give YOU a
brief sketch of the ways and means of
this institution. The Office Is neat and
comfortable place, but they haven't put
up their stove yet and SO we have
to keep the windows down during this
awful weather. The day clerks are the
bOarders, male and female, this being a
necessity because of the absence of any
clerk at all, the proprietors doing all the
supervising work from Office to kitchen.
But our night clerk is a dandy" He
goes on duty at p. m. and off at a.
nj. His duties comprise those of pOr-
ter. bellzboy, lamp lighter. lamp filler.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
PIN MONEY FOR WIVES.
a Married Man Explains How to Ar
range Home Money Matters.
PAY YOUR WIFE A SALARY.
She Is a Good Business Manauer and
Will Make a Dollar Go a
Long Way.

YOUNG married
man was talking
with a GLOBE re-
porter yeSte I'd ay
about various mat
tiers, and incidently
touched on the sub
Ject of married la
dies sp en- din g
money. Il am quite
Interested" said the
young man, ''in the
little article. Pin
Money for Wives
(which was printed
in last SUNDAYS
IT nDE T ho-a
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
When You Patronize Fruit
Stands be Sure You Get
Good, Healthy Fruit.
It is Liable to Be Too Green
and in Many Cases
Over Ripe.
Stocks of Partly Rotten Fruit
Sold on the Streets by
Italian Vendors.
They Are Perfectly Satisfied
With Quick Sales and Very
Small Profits.

ICA sweeta bananas,
20 centa for a dozen, A"
lis the cry, in tolerably
fair English, of the
Italian fruit yender,
who pushes a two
wheeled and well
loaded cart up and
down the wooden side
walks on several back
residence streets ON the
sgl,sII -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04

1t suggests thought as to what the
consumption of fruit might be IN this
city. Chatting with Third street COM
mission merchant developed the follow
ing:
Il could not say just how much fruit
is brought into this city during the sum-
mer. The only way to get at it, and it
would be very laborious, and may be
impracticable. is to find out the number
of carloads unlOaded into this city, and
then fix upon the average value of a
carload and make total of the
lot. But l should say, as
random guess, that at least $500, 900
worth of fruit is sold in this city during
the hot summer monthS-I mean for
street consumption. OF course you
haven't got any idea of the amount of
fruit that is purchased by frugal people
and put up for the winter. If should
say over 81, 100000 worth of fruit was
required to satisfy the wants of this city
for one year, considering it's direct con-
sumption and its use in various ways,
suppose you would foster doubt as to
my veracity. You collect statistics
upon it, though, and 1 guess you will
see that my figure is very modest.
And yet, with all the amount of fruit
consumed, DR.. Jones, the health COM
missioner, says he has not been able to
trace any bad malady to it, nor even to
the eating of partly spoiled fruit. True,
some persons are SO constituted that
the
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-14

Aberdeen News: Some OF the demo-
cratic papers are attempting TO reflect
upon the management Of the Yankton
asylum for accepting patients from CLAY
county, but not from Brown. This
demonstrates lamentable ignorance
The patients from Brown were refused
because they were inourable cases. They
would have been taken, however, had
tbs room at the asylum permitted.
Hand County Press: Secretary Kuen-
ster informs MS Hon. Geo. n. Hand has
accepted an invitation to address, the
people of the r. V. & a. O. fair in Mil
Ter. Many Of our people have had the
pleasure of listening to MI. Hand, OF
other occasions and will be glad OF an
opportunity to do 30 again. He ID one
Of our representative men-a man OF 40
knowledged ability, q thorough Dakota
ian and will give MS a talk we'll worth 60
ing miles to hear.
Aberdeen News: superintendent
Oravens, Of the Yankton insane hospital
has organized q brass band among the
patients at the hospital. They have re-
ceived their instruments and are taking
daily practice. They should by all
means serensde the present administers
ton.
Woonsocket Times: Many Of the ablesi
men in Dakota, the most popular orators
and those who have frequently enjoyed
the highest honors Of our people, art
now the outspoken advocates OF prohibi
ton Of the liquor traffic. We need onl.
to mention suoh names as Gamble,
Campbell Eddy and Plummer, to max,
it apparent to all that 9 wonderful re.
volutlon in public sentiment and person
Oh conviction has taken place, and tt
convince the most skeptical that the on
ward march Of the public conscience ii
agains. the saloon system Of our country
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-14
LAuUNxCH.

LOCAL LACON1CS.
George Murphy began work this morn-
ing on the CITY hall excavation.
John +. M. Pierce will occupy A. E..
Oobby's residence en- college hill.
Company e will report at the armory
IN full dress uniform at $50 this even
ing.
Instead OF this weeks. predicted storm
we appear to have settled autumn
weather.
Capt. O. Hamlester has recently added
a handsome Wheeler upright piano to
the furniture OF his parlor.
"One more fall IN the temperature
like that of last night will result in o
frcst" says q man who knows whereof
he speaks.
Daniel Wise, who owns the lot upon
which the Bowling fruit store stands,
will erec. o brick block on those prem
1898 in the spring.
Arrangements for the reception Go
Company E have been completed, and
the Turner hall tonight will be the
scene Of a grand affair.
a meeting OF the right OF way com
mlttee appointed last evening WAS held
at four O'Clock this afternoon. ct which
the committees business was inaugur-
ated.
Felix O~ariveau, the old time popular
boot maker of Yankton, has settled
down to Business. His 9 quarters
are on Third St., first door west OF the
Morrison.
Canton and Sioux City have ioinet
hands in an effort to direct the Duluth
road southwark from Sioux Falls, vi
Canton, to Sioux City and are working
the project for all there is in il.
To-day men have congregated in pub
lie places sad discussed the results o
last nights meeting, and there is gen
ersl good feeling expressed. A fey
ehrenic kickers are OF course found VIII
were not satisfied and never will be.
At the time Of the laying of the corne
stone for the new city hsh and FIRE hous
the fire department Will indulge in
season OF festivities. At o meeting 3
the department last night a commute
to complete the arrangsrneDte WIS up